Springbok hooker Malcolm Marx capped off a remarkable season by being crowned SA Rugby Player of the Year for 2025.
The Junior Springboks concluded their short tour of Georgia with a 35-5 victory over their hosts on a cold and wet Friday afternoon in Tbilisi, with SA U20 head coach Kevin Foote praising the players’ resilience in the tough conditions.
Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus cast his net wide, as he named a 49-man squad featuring 11 uncapped players – five of whom are still in the Junior Springbok ranks – for the team’s first in-person alignment camp of the year in Cape Town on Wednesday.
Riley Norton will lead an exciting Junior Springbok team in the first of two international meetings against Georgia in Tbilisi on Sunday afternoon.
The Junior Springboks are braced for freezing European winter conditions to face physical and abrasive opponents that will test their grit and determination on their forthcoming tour of Georgia and will be looking to use this trip to improve their cohesion and understanding of their game model ahead of the start of the international season.
Junior Springbok head coach Kevin Foote has named an exciting 31-man squad to travel to Tbilisi for a three-match tour of Georgia later this month, with four members from last year’s Junior Springbok squad selected for the trip.
SA Rugby confirmed on Friday that former Springbok lock Barend Pieterse had been appointed as a lineout and breakdown consultant to the Junior Springbok team for three years.
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The Springboks wrapped up their two-week conditioning camp in Johannesburg where they continued to put in the hard yards for the Castle Lager Rugby Championship, and the excitement among the three Junior Springbok World Rugby U20 Championship winners was etched on their faces after what they described as an opportunity of a lifetime.
Junior Springbok head coach Kevin Foote will get a glimpse of what the future holds when he and his coaching team work with the two SA Under-18 squads announced on Wednesday for next month’s U18 International Series in and around Paarl, in the Western Cape.